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Chap. II.—B. S.] AMERICAN LIBERALITY. 
that the Panama Railroad Company, with praise¬ 
worthy liberality, offers a free pass to any distinguished 
man of science who may have occasion to avail him¬ 
self of their railway or their steamers, or send his 
collections by them. Show me a European commer¬ 
cial company that would do as much to assist scientific 
research as these Americans, whom we always taunt 
with their worship of the almighty dollar! 
M. Zeltner, the French Consul at Panama, was 
another interesting personage whose acquaintance I 
had the pleasure of making. He was good enough to 
show me his valuable ethnological collection, which 
comprises many rare specimens from the ancient 
Indian tombs of Chiriqui, the extreme western district 
of the isthmus, of which he had published some beau¬ 
tiful photographs, with descriptive letterpress. Having 
been the first who drew public attention to the Chiriqui 
antiquities, in a paper read by me at London before the 
Archaeological Institute in 1851,1 naturally felt deeply 
interested in M. Zeltner’s collections and labours. 
There is a great deal yet to he discovered in Chiriqui; 
and the resemblance, maybe identity, of inscriptions 
found on ancient British rocks with those of that 
district may perhaps tempt some enterprising anthro¬ 
pological inquirers to explore thoroughly that almost 
virgin ground. However, in 'order to understand the 
full importance of the subject a few words are needed 
in explanation. 
Mr. George Tate, of Alnwick, recently published a 
work on 1 The Ancient British Sculptured Rocks of 
Northumberland and the Eastern Borders, with Notes 
